Sant Pere de Galligants Cloister - King's Landing Cloister, Girona

The Sant Pere de Galligants is a former Benedictine abbey in Girona, and it has been home to the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia since 1857. The place's name translates as "Saint Peter of Galligants" and refers to the river Galligants that runs nearby.

The monastery was built in 992, outside the walls of Girona, and to date, apart from its church and cloister, almost nothing else has survived. The Romanesque church was built in 1130, funded by the lavish donation bequeathed by Ramon Berenguer the Great, Count of Barcelona.

The small cloister that we see today is the perfect example of Catalan Romanesque architecture. Its northern gallery dates back to 1154, while the rest of it is from 1190. The capitals of the columns feature motifs very similar to those found in the cloisters of Sant Cugat del Vallès or in the Cathedral of Girona, depicting scenes from the life of Jesus and some typically Romanesque embellishments such as the images of lions and sirens. In 1931, the site was declared a national monument.

In more recent history, however, the sanctuary gained popularity as a filming set of Game of Thrones. The fiction series featured the monastery on several occasions, primarily as the entrance to the Library of Oldtown, the center of knowledge of the great masters of Ponent, in which Samwell Tarly, accompanied by Gilly and little Sam, wanted to train as a Maester. Another of Sant Pere's peculiar appearances in Game of Thrones was as the King’s Landing Cloister.